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Chomsky’s gotta hate all forms of reinforcement learning successes. After all, what else are those if not the proof that his arch enemy BF Skinner was right. C
by leobg 4y ago
Chomsky’s gotta hate all forms of reinforcement learning successes. After all, what else are those if not the proof that his arch enemy BF Skinner was right.
Chomsky came to fame by criticizing Skinner’s book “Verbal behavior“, arguing, there was more to language and intelligence than statistics. Now here we are, 30 years after Skinner’s death, and the closest thing we have to general artificial intelligence is based exactly on what Skinner described.
- cma 4y agoOt once you consider paucity of the stimulus arguments and compare the data ingested (though also compute isn't there to match the brain yet so it is possible that goes away with more compute).
- eternalban 4y ago> the closest thing we have to general artificial intelligence is based exactly on what Skinner described. Didn't know about Skinner's book. My thoughts on encountering ChatGPT were exactly the same: this is statistics and not reasoning, yet it is truly powerful, in explicable ways. PV=nRt